The AfricaNews articles of Wambui
Easter Celebration in Nairobi
Kenya is mostly a Christian nation where religious celebrations are play a strong role in daily life. Easter is one of such occasions where people meet and pray. - This video report features the Saint Raphael Catholic Church where Father Mugo celbrated the holy mass last Easter Sunday.Kibera: The power of hope
Kenyan young girls are still exposed to sexual violence and its consequences and are therefore in need of assistance. A locally-based non governmental organisation known as Power of Hope has assigned itself to assist girls in that situation in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. - In this report, both the organisation’s representatives and its beneficiaries tell more about the project.Kenya: A Passion for fashion
People have different things that they do every day in their lives. Some are employed and some are self employed. Edward Makena is an example of the self employed ones, who's a fashion designer and also a farmer. He runs his business in his hoe area in Nairobi uthiru. - He decided to be self employed because he doesn't like being commanded and always being employed then be later sacked out from work as many people of Nairobi undergo through. He loves his job because his clients go to his house and gives him jobs to make clothes for them and since he does his work from the house where there are no disturbances.
Edward has an advice for the youths out there who are jobless to at …The wedding planner
Having a wedding is usually the best thing every one wishes to do because it comes once in a life time. Stephen Kamau is a wedding planner in Nairobi city. He decorates wedding gowns, flowers and if you like he can also help in arranging of the wedding venue by decorating it too. - In his job, Stephen encounters some small challenges like the city council harassing them in getting the store license and also the paying of the store rent which is a bit higher and his store is small and so he is asking the government to help in reducing the rent.
Stephen likes his job because he doesn't like being employed because some bosses are too boast full and that's what made him be a self em…Kenya: Fighting computer illiteracy
In recent years, Kenyan youths have become more and more aware of the need and importance of computers skills. Private schools have since then flourished in cities, attracting Young men and women eager to play a role during this ongoing information age. - One of those schools is run by Saint Peter Church in Nairobi. In this report, one of the trainers explains what kind of courses they offer.Kenya: Discover Jupiter Guest Resort
The Jupiter Guest Resort is located in Nairobi's Westlands area. it has a total of 35 rooms among which doubles and singles. Its compound is beautifully decorated with green flowers and even the colour they have used to paint their hotel attracts people from far. - The restaurant is simply but beautifully arranged in such a way that visitors hold their meeting there. Also the place accommodates conferences. The most amazing thing about the hotel is that it has a smoking zone which is rare to find in many resorts countrywideKenya: Curio business challenged
Curio shops are popular in Kenya due to visiting foreigners and even to local Kenyan tourists. In this report, a curio trader explains some of the challenges the get in their jobs one of them being off s comes across. - The most important challenge comes from the Nairobi city council which harasses curio traders calling them hawkers, mainly because they don't pay their stall rent on time. The second interviewee talks of how the difficulties in communicating with foreign tourists.Kenya: Taking tourists to their destinations
The tourism industry is one the most important sources of revenue for Kenya. It also employs or benefits in one way or another hundreds of thousands of Kenyans. - This report is about the views of the tour cars’drivers.Nairobi: The Joseph Kangethe Rescue Centre
Since 1993, the Joseph Kangethe Rescue Centre has been striving to give hope to street children by offering them sheleter, food, cloths and education. - Between 1993 and 2003, the centre catered for 900 street kids. The number is much smaller now as many of them have gone to school. Also those reaching 18 years leave the centre to enter active life.Kenya: The recycling business
Moses Muchugu, a Nairobi resident, has been earning his daily bread from scrap. He buys scrap plastic and metal materials and resells them to recycling factories. - Muchugu says that both the seller and he make profit out of the trade. He is far from complaining his business, thanks to which he maintains his family and pays for his children’s education.Kenya: Giving a future to Kibera orphans
Siloam Academy has been striving to give a future to orphans in Kibera slum in Nairobi. The Academy which is also coupled with the Children's home caters for 70 children, and is owned by Bishop Stephen Wanyonyi. - The youngest kid in the home is 3 years old and the oldest is 20 years. Many children in the home are orphaned by diseases such as HIV AIDS and Malaria. Some among these children are tested positive for the killer disease AIDS.
The school started in the year 1992 and had only 6 children and by the time the children's home was opened in 1998, the number had grown to 21. In 2005 the home recorded 54 children and now it has 70 children.
The challenges the home faces …Kibera youths engage in performing arts
Youths in the almost 1million-inhabitant slum of Kibera have turned to performing arts, including dance, drumming and so on to earn a living. - The 20-people group currently being trained in Kibera also does community work such as cleaning the slum, especially its drainages, collecting garbage etc. They perform in schools and cover educative subjects such as HIV/AIDS prevention, abortion, rape and others.
The group also visits children’s homes to put on a smile on faces of the children who live there by entertaining them also with their traditional dances.
Kibera is the second largest slum in Africa, the first one being Soweto in South Africa. One may wonder how people survive or…Kenya: Coffee before it reaches our cups
Coffee planting is rarely practiced in Nairobi, it's mainly found in the central parts of Kenya, where there's a lot of water. - But it's different in Mr. David's farm in Nairobi. There isn't enough water for growing in his 1 acre piece of land. But lucky enough his farm is fertile. He solves the water issue by pumping water from a nearby river.
“Coffee planting is now becoming quite expensive due to the high cost of fertilizers” explains Mr. David. He is not making lots of profit as he used to when he bought fertilizers at a lower price.
Mr. David has enough employees for picking coffee, washing the coffee berries, transporting to the grinder, and …Kenya: The pig farm
Pig farming is very practiced in Kenya, although many people say pigs are very dirty animals - Some farmers are very clean and their animals do not just feed on anything they come across.
The farm I visited is very exceptional: pigs are kept separately according to their ages, maturity, stages. Young piglets are together, while males and females are also put together to facilitate mating.
Pigs have fixed eating times: every morning and evening. However, pregnant and and mother-pigs are treated differently with more food and more often.
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